2. Children left ‘vomiting blood’ after being served contaminated drink at a restaurant.

A 10-year-old boy and his four-year-old half sister were rushed to intensive care when they became ill after drinking apple juice at a restaurant that is believed to have been ‘poisoned’, The Telegraph reports.

The children were celebrating their older sibling’s birthday at a restaurant in Pennsylvania, when they fell ill quickly after drinking the juice.

The pair spent the night in intensive care with severe burns of the mouth and throat. They are both in a serious but stable condition.

Richard Zaragoza Sr., Richie’s father, told the Lancaster Online that a test from the medical centre revealed that methanol was at least one of the substances present in the apple juice the children were served.

Tributes have been laid beside a Melbourne lake where two men drowned during a ‘drunken swim’, 9 News reports.

Nineteen-year-old Haydyn Gibbons, and another man believed to be aged in his 30s, died while trying to swim across a lake in Redleap Reserve at Mill Park on Sunday night.

“To our little brother Haydyn, may you rest in peace beautiful boy. We love you always, forever young,” a tribute placed by the edge of the water read.

A large bunch of flowers, a bottle of beer and a can of whiskey and dry ginger was also left on a pier beside the lake to honour Haydyn’s memory.

“Never did I think I’d be coming home to your empty bedroom,” a friend, who had been living with Haydyn for four years, wrote on Facebook.

“I’m sitting here wide awake, still in shock that you’re no longer with us.”

Witnesses heard screaming as the two men became distressed while swimming across the water. A third man jumped in the water to search for his friends, but swam to shore and called for help when he began to feel the effects of alcohol.

Police launched a full-scale search for the two men before their bodies were pulled from the water around 10pm.

“Unfortunately because of the effects of alcohol, two of them got into trouble while swimming across the lake,” Senior Sergeant Mark Smith said at the scene.

4. Man charged with murder after a woman’s body was found in a Sydney home.